"Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will be able to fight a hundred battles without being imperiled."
Although this is not a new motto, it is the principle of warfare and conduct that I have always believed in. If you don't even know how much strength the enemy has, then this battle should not be fought from the beginning.
"The person with the most counts in the temple will win, and the less count will not win, not to mention no count." The outcome of the negotiation is often determined by the situation of the two parties before the negotiation. I also believe that the victory or defeat of the war situation will also be decided before the war. There is no benefit and no chance of winning. Fighting is not desirable.
Due to the sudden appearance of the Nine-Headed Dragon King, Oran and the Sea Clan were in a deadlock, but the deadlock is always short-lived. I expect a major turning point in the battle situation soon. No matter which side has the upper hand, Donglan and I will be at a loss. Neither is a good thing.
If Oran wins, Dasos' status will be greatly stabilized. According to his character, there will probably be some trouble. If the sea clan wins... I am afraid that this city will no longer be a human territory, and that The legendary underwater city, Yasuo, is not impossible to completely submerge in the water.
So, take advantage of the deadlock to lay down this underwater base, and then use it as a starting point to obtain the technology and samples of the airship, then you can get some benefits, and if the situation is not good, you will have enough money.
The contract may be reached at any time. Time is running out. There is only one chance. If the first attack fails, the next time will be really troublesome.
With the help of the Banshee King, it is not difficult to mix in a few low-level undead, and sufficient investigation and preparation have been done in advance.
The structure of this base is not complicated. The dock area is the floating airship under construction, the mage area is the research institute and residence of the mages and craftsmen, and the six mage towers are the most dangerous defensive buildings here.
There is a squadron of the White Wolf Guard stationed here, with about 300 people. The only ones who can fight are the mages. With the conventional ten-to-one conversion ratio, there are about 30 more qualified to be dead. The existence of knights, as for high-level undeads such as banshees and corpses converted by mages, who can have silver rank and intelligence just after waking up, the conversion success rate is even lower. I don't think it will exceed the number of death knights. In other words, the number of high-level undead should not exceed one hundred.
But judging from the current situation, the Death Knights alone have exceeded 100, so there is only one possibility for such a high conversion rate.
"That Prince Caroxin, should he secretly practice undead magic since human time? The prince of a country is actually a necromancer above the holy rank. It seems that he has a lot of plans."
Soon, the sentry found several hundred people's pits. It seems that after finding that he was isolated, in order to reduce food consumption, he directly carried out massacres, and then saw that the situation was not right. I am afraid that he will not be able to communicate with the outside world in a short time. He simply exposed his identity as a necromancer, transformed himself into a lich, transformed his subordinates into undead, and even helped by the sleepless undead workers, making the construction faster than expected.
In fact, during the investigation, necromancer converters and soul towers that convert the living into the undead have been discovered, but it is uncertain whether they were built secretly before or after isolation, and the living are in endless pain. An evil instrument that has been transformed into a brainless low-level undead, it is definitely the evil of evil.
Necromancy converter is a taboo in Shiloh. After all, although this thing can convert undead on a large scale, no matter what goes in, it will come out with cannon fodder like skeletons and zombies, and this kind of mass-produced undead is inherently insufficient, it is difficult to Growth and advanced, not to mention awakening to become a high-level undead with intelligence, and Shiro is not without living residents (although most of them are slaves and vassals), plus dozens of undead masters can meet various conversion needs , this efficient but low-quality conversion method is only suitable for using massacres to convert cannon fodder during the war.
Before the massacre, the hundreds of people's pits had touched the bottom line of the law of God. With the massacre and this notorious necromancy converter, Prince Kaloxin's actions could no longer be described. The legal profession among us has a reason to crusade Caroxin, otherwise I will find a way to fill the loopholes of Kross and the others.
At this time, the main force of the opponent should be the brainless skeletons and zombies converted by craftsmen and their families. Judging from the number of people everywhere, the necromancer converter, which is regarded as a taboo, is really powerful, and Kaloxin has no lower limit. It's time to "make the most of it."
My intelligence work is already in place, but on the battlefield, I can't count it as exhaustive. Unexpectedly, the progress is too advanced, and four light assault boats have already been put into storage.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
Cannons roared in midair, thick smoke billowed, metal fragments and wooden boards fell from time to time, and the bombardment between the same type of warships was even more brutal.
"Vulture"-type assault ship, its prototype is a small gunboat for surface combat, and it is also a trial work of the floating fleet. They are all weapons originally used for surface warfare. They are designed to carry 30 personnel, but five or six members can also start.
The current floating ship is still in the stage of imitating and imitating surface ships. It is far from soaring in the sky more than ten years later. The sudden attack of the cloud army is overbearing and powerful. Even in my eyes, two legendary mages can knock it down. .
But although it is not too strong, it is also an extremely important prototype ship. The floating turbine system on it and the air operating system of the ship are the most classic initial models, and "initial" also means the structure is simple and convenient. Analysis and imitation, so even if Oran starts to sell some low-level floating ships in the future, this original Vulture is still not for sale.
Due to the appearance of the ambush, what we are now facing is undoubtedly a two-on-four battle.
Originally, we lost in the number of ships. We must have a disadvantage in terms of personnel. However, with the addition of several goblin engineers brought by the Silver Hook, our crew is more powerful than the dull new undead. .
And the ace hunter, Romons, who has played with muskets for more than two hundred years, showed surprising skills in operating very similar artillery. The angle of the main gun of the ship, commanding another warship in the scolding.
Although the number of opposing ships has doubled, the crew they are equipped with cannot exert the power of the ships.
The newly-born undead are still very fragile. Kaloxin's army of the dead lacks background. The intelligent undead in his hands is very limited, and even if he is controlled by his undead magic, I am afraid that there are not a few people who hold grudges. After all, most believe in the gods of order. For ordinary human beings, they would rather enter the realm of the gods after death than turn into bloodthirsty undead who are hostile to the world.
There are not many trustworthy "people" he can use. Low-level skeletons can be hard workers, but it is too hard to be a crew member that requires skills.
On the opposite ship were one or two corpse witches and two middle-level undead who were barely able to speak, and then used a vote of skeleton zombies as sailors. The corpse witch who was the captain was probably a mage before. When he fired, or found that he couldn't hit anything, he jumped onto the deck and started casting spells.
However, the fact that the opponent attacked independently as a spellcaster reminded Coros instead, so the thunderstorms all over the sky evoked, and the shelling and thunder began at the same time.
The intervention of Corosi, the legendary great Druid, directly overturned the balance of the air battle, thunderstorms smashed wildly, the opponent's ships were repeatedly struck by lightning, the sails were ignited, and the deck was constantly smoking.
In the kingdom of elves, Storm Druid is a turret profession that is comparable to fire. Not to mention that the firepower is directly doubled, the accuracy of the spells after the eyes of the legal profession is locked can far exceed the engineering heavy artillery that needs to calculate a lot of data. For a while, the ship where Kolos and Romons were on actually turned the opposite side. The four ships were pinned down.
The artillery fire on both sides continued, thunderstorms and death spells bounced back and forth, the fire and roar of the charged main gun cut through the sky, and the smoke of the engineering artillery began to permeate.
"Whoa!"
Finally, the first victim appeared and was hit by heavy artillery and thunder at the same time. The Vulture battleship with "3" printed on the deck was the first to disintegrate. The hull cracked from the middle, and the second half of the power system exploded into sparks. The front started to fall.
When the No. 3 ship disintegrated and exploded in mid-air, and the situation turned into two-to-three, the dawn of our victory had already appeared, but unfortunately, we were too happy, and the opponent's magic support and the lich were not enough.
Suddenly, the mage tower where the lich Kaloxin was located also burst into a violent red light, and a huge fireball with crimson brilliance was launched.
The fireball full of flame magic was so big and fast that it was impossible to intercept.
"Boom!"
Even though Coros' thunderstorm tried to intercept, the giant fireball still hit the No. 1 battleship where Diana was.
The fire magic is extremely aggressive, and the strategic pyrotechnic explosion that Kaloxin can increase through the mage tower is not comparable to the thunderstorm of Coros. The ship's silence was more crisp than his brother's, and it began to disintegrate and shatter directly in the explosion.
"Jumping!"
They jumped off the ship without hesitation. The goblin engineers always had the good habit of preparing for explosions and making escape routes to save them. After giving the order to abandon the ship, there were white parachutes floating in the air, which were hanging on the side of the ship. on the gnome parachute.
But unfortunately...
"Ahhh!"
As a melee paladin who has been heavily armored for a long time, Diana is useless in air combat. After winning the ship, she has become a bit idle, but then she found Oran's specialty rice on the Vulture Assault ship cabin. She was overjoyed with the Cyrol Mithril alloy full-body armor. This is a treasure that can never be found on the market. Thinking of the battle now, she put it on without hesitation...
Well, we can understand the desire of a melee knight who has served as a meat shield for a long time for good armor, but obviously a simple parachute is definitely not a heavy armored paladin that can't carry a full armor, and a legendary paladin who screams and falls uses his own example. It fully shows that even a paladin needs to add some intelligence... Even if it may not help the battle, the death method of stupid death is too ugly.
As mentioned earlier, although the Micilor Mithril alloy contains mithril, it is more of an alloy of rare and precious metals. Although the defense and magic power carrying capacity are very good, but because it is too heavy, full armor After being armed, Oran's well-bred warhorses could not be carried, and the White Wolf Guards were turned into light cavalry.
If you drop a can of apples from a height of more than 100 meters, no matter whether the canned tin will break into several pieces, the apple will definitely turn into fruit jam, and if Diana does fall, no matter whether she is a legendary knight or something, she will It turns directly into the elf sauce in the armor fragments.
With the strength of her legendary rank, if she didn't wear this full body armor, she could still find a way to survive, but now, the full body armor is like a metal cage, no matter how much she regrets it, she can't help it.
Diana, the Knight of the Moon, died in AD 1897. Cause of death: Easy and stupid. Silly girl, how can you be so stupid... She can already think of what those bad habit guys will write on their goals.
"Ah, help, it's a shame to die like this, I haven't achieved my purpose in life, I... My savings slip is hidden in my boots, please help me give it to Victoria, and... Lord Patricia Guide me on my way, I confess my sins to the Holy Light, Lord Sleepless, I have not seen your great deeds... I, I haven't been in love yet, I don't want to die! Lord Sleepless, help!"
Well, they all started praying with their eyes closed, but suddenly, the body lightened, the speed of descent slowed down, and then, it seemed to stop.
"Idiot! Remember to call me for help, it's not completely helpless."
When he opened his eyes, it was the familiar person who was pulling him, with golden wings unfolding, and the flame halo on his head was blazing. The legendary posture reminded Diana of a legend directly.
"Angel? Am I dead? My lord, why are you here? Are you dead too? Are you actually an angel?"
The frightened Legendary Knight was full of horror, and when he opened his mouth, he completely exposed the cuteness of his mature appearance.
In mythology, it is true that angels take over the souls of the dead, but as soon as she opened her mouth, why did I feel so awkward.
"Take back what you just said. You really are helpless. What do you mean by coming? I've never been to heaven in my life... eh?"
I flapped my wings and crossed an arc, dodging the storm arrows and fireballs shot by the mage tower in the distance.
"Go back and have a good talk with you about what happened to that inexplicable dying confession. If the three true gods really heard it, and there are believers like you, they might be amused by you. But now, let's do it together first. Just do it."
During the gliding, I looked down and looked down, and the bottom was already in a ball.
The battle on the ground is more cruel than in the air, and the opponent's numerical advantage is more obvious. Except for the boundless mindless cannon fodder, the opponent's main force is obviously the death knight transformed by the White Wolf Guard.
Most of the revived White Wolf Guards are still in the confused period of just recovering. They haven't recovered enough wisdom, and they can't use dark magic and innate abilities at all. It is said that the death knight is very reluctant, more like a slightly higher zombie warrior. Still difficult to deal with.
There was no other reason. As the royal guard of the Oran Empire, the White Wolf Guard was well equipped.
Micilor's crit sword had a crimson brilliance, and the corrugated blade seemed to be roaring constantly. The refined long swords of the royal knights of Donglan were vulnerable in front of him, and the Micilor burst spear was a big one. The weapons of mass destruction exploded a big hole at a time, and if they were not careful, they might die in their hands.
Fortunately, their IQs are not very high now. In the melee, they are frequently injured by accident, throwing guns, and the cannon fodder on their own side is basically blown up, and the death knights and corpse witches leading the team are furious.
Due to Prince Caroxin's status as an undead archmage, the death knight was several times as expected, and when I took off, there was only a strong meat shield on the ground, the yeti knight, plus the magic support of the mage tower on the opposite side, for a while In the meantime, the following battles came to a stalemate.
Fortunately, Beifeng and Casio are both there. For the threatening burst spear, their bow and arrow can be easily detonated in advance, so that there is no major loss on our side.
But even if the battle situation on the ground is getting more and more difficult, I have no intention of intervening. After all, we must take the initiative in the battle, and the small transformation time should make the most effective use of the mobile combat power. almost.
"Boom!", "Boom!"
Sure enough, soon, the sound of an explosion not far away attracted everyone's attention, and the dark chess I arranged really worked.
"Sure enough, the two boys Green and Silver Hook are completely wasteful to throw the frontal battlefield. It is suitable for them to let them do damage behind enemy lines."
Yes, since we have the heart and the heart, since we already have the intelligence of the other party, it is really stupid to face it head-on. We are not enough and have more than one expert, so it is suitable for small-scale battles. From the beginning, I divided the number of people. A team, Chloe and Diana are the first group and the second group, and the explosive man Green and the silver hook are the explosion group behind the enemy.
And with the explosion, the arcane brilliance on several mage towers began to go out, and then the poor contact lighted and dimmed, and finally dimmed completely. Obviously, Green and the others fulfilled my requirements for the explosion target. , the energy pool of this base was successfully destroyed, and the mage tower, which had lost its energy supply, began to be paralyzed.
"Complete the primary objective before the backup energy pool and the small energy source inside the mage tower are activated."
The primary goal of this battle? It's the crusade against Kalokhin himself.
Fighting a war of attrition with the undead legion is the most stupid. The endless and never-ending sea of undead has no idea of fatigue and morale. It can always consume all the stamina and blood of the opponent in a protracted battle. To deal with such a legion, decapitation is the most important thing. A good choice, as long as the Undead Monarch falls, his legion will naturally become meaningless, and will even disintegrate on its own.
At this time, the mage tower on the opposite side was briefly turned off, and I could fly again, and I also brought a silly girl ace thug.
Spread out your golden wings and glide in the sky, leaving a rainbow-shaped golden glow wherever you pass by. As for the scale in your hand? With my twenty-point basic strength, the female knight in her right hand will not be too heavy to bear.
"Boom!"
But obviously my flying skills are not very proficient. I accidentally hit the sail of the No. 6 assault boat. I was fine, but there was a big hole in the sail that looked like a female elf.
I cut off the mast and watched the chaos on the enemy's boat. I pulled it up again, and Rommons didn't miss this opportunity. Taking advantage of the opponent's stop moving, a precise bomb hit the ammunition depot. Make number six a spark.
The air situation has become one-to-two, with Legendary Druids and ace marksmen on the smaller side, and I don't have to worry about the air situation anymore.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't see it."
Looking at Diana, who was staring at the stars below, I kept apologizing in a low voice.
"You must have done it on purpose."
"No, I was really unintentional just now, but this time, it was intentional."
"Ah!"
Looking at the released right hand and the screaming Diana below, I smiled proudly. This time I really let go of my hand on purpose, and it seemed to be aimed very accurately.
"Boom!"
The poor fifth deck was directly smashed through, the corpse witch I was eyeing was directly smashed into pieces by the female knight, and Diana, who was astonishingly heavy, fell directly to the second floor without losing her momentum.
"Diana, give you two minutes! Clean up all the high-level undead in this dress."
But what makes people strange is that I didn't hear the expected slashing sound. Instead, after a "dong dong dong" footsteps, Diana ran back to the deck from the lower deck.
"Big... lord, take me away. This ship is about to explode!"
Well, I still trust her words. If you have any doubts, say it on the road. Sure enough, just as I picked her up, I didn't fly far when I heard the sound of an explosion behind.
"Boom!"
The explosion was louder than the previous one, apparently the powder magazine exploded along with something else.
"What's the matter? You fell on the powder magazine?"
"...Why have you been so unlucky recently." Diana, who was muttering to herself, only reacted when she heard my question.
"When I was on the second floor, I killed another undead knight. Judging from the captain's hat, it should be the captain, but it fell directly into the third floor, just into the power room, and ended up on the main engine."
"The engine is broken? If the engine is broken, it will explode directly. It seems that the stability of this airship is really poor."
"No." Diana grimaced, but her face flushed with embarrassment.
"As soon as I got up, I touched a button with a red skull on it, and I accidentally pressed it when I got up."
Well, they all came from Sulphur Mountain City. It's enough to say that this is enough. Goblin engineering likes to leave a bad habit of leaving a red skull mark. Everyone knows what the skull represents.
"Fell down and smashed two high-level undead to death. When I got up, I just touched the self-destruction button? This luck... It is indeed correct to choose you as my bodyguard."
What a bad luck lightning rod, no wonder I feel good luck during this time, it seems that with the help of the broom star halo, bad luck has been absorbed by you.
I nodded with satisfaction, but Diana was full of incomprehension and helplessness, but right now, there was no time to sigh and explain.
At the top of the tallest mage tower, under the escort of a group of death knights, Kaloxin is summoning Blast, and his target is obviously us who have threatened him.
"Dasos, the cursed one! You traitors, I, Kaloxin, should be the next emperor of Oran!"
Well, the lich still thinks we are from Dasos, but I don't need to explain.
"Well, then, Your Majesty, let me take you on your way."
Suddenly, the voice of the Banshee King rang in his ears.
"It's actually an old acquaintance, look at the ring on his hand."
I looked closely and found the astrologer's mark on the lich's right hand, and immediately became furious.
"Damn astrology tower, there are even their people here."
"I'm not talking about that. Look at the cross of the magic book and the wand on the little finger ring on the left hand. He should be my named disciple, your junior brother."
"Even if it's my junior brother? Is there a difference?"
"No, I just remind you to deal with it carefully. My named disciples are not easy to deal with. Everyone has at least a few tricks and trump cards. Don't treat him as an ordinary lich!"